The stated priority of the Metropolitan Police Department is to prevent and solve violent crimes. But that doesn’t mean there isn’t room for other kinds of policing. Like, for example, locking up out-of-towners like Joe Carr who engage in the “unspeakable crime” of reselling their Nationals tickets on Half Street SE. Carr, in a Washington Post op-ed, says one of his arresting officers “told me that scalping at a Taylor Swift concert at Verizon Center in May was so bad that the powers that be had mandated a zero tolerance on ticket resale” and that he had “no discretion” on whether or not to make the arrest. “I begged to differ,” Carr writes, “and he said that I could go along without a fuss or I could wait until Monday to see a judge. … So I shut up and went to jail.” After paying a $50 fine and waiving his right to contest the ticket, Carr was set free two-and-a-half hours later. He muses: “I broke a law. Guilty. But what purpose was served by my arrest? … I am certain that the costs of my arrest, transport and processing had to be many multiples of the $50 I paid. Does the District have a massive budget surplus it needs to spend down?” Actually, Joe ….